At the recent ALSC Live conference, Marc Brazeau, head of logistics at FCA North America, said the crisis had increased the understanding within individual organisations of the value of digital transformation, particularly in areas of the supply chain to which it lends itself, logistics and transport being two of them.

FCA switched to ‘sprint’ meetings with internal teams and suppliers using digital communication platforms to speed up decision making on the shutdowns of the plants in its network. It was also crucial to the restart of operations, according to Brazeau.

That was a point reinforced by Raman Mehta, chief information officer and vice-president at tier one supplier Visteon, a company that began its software-centric journey a couple of years ago.